‘Epimic of vlence’: Brazil shocked by ‘barbaric’ gang-rape of gay man | Brazil | The Guardian

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• ‘EPIMIC OF VLENCE’: BRAZIL SHOCKED BY ‘BARBARIC’ GANG-RAPE OF GAY MAN
• BRAZILIAN PRINTIAL HOPEFUL EDUARDO LEE OUT AS GAY

‘EPIMIC OF VLENCE’: BRAZIL SHOCKED BY ‘BARBARIC’ GANG-RAPE OF GAY MAN

By The Numbers79% Thk homosexualy should be accepted by society as a whole80% of Brazilians thk homosexualy should be accepted by society79% of Brazilians thk society accept homosexualy74% of Brazilians thk homosexualy should be accepted by societyHistoryHomosexual activy Brazil? AmbiguoAlthough the Brazilian nstutn of 1988 prohibs any form of discrimatn, was not until 2019 that homosexuals and trans people were fively regnized as one of the adoptn Brazil? BannedThe same judge changed his cisn, keepg the “treatment” bannedIn September 2017, a feral judge Brasília approved the e of nversn therapy by a psychologist to “cure” people of homosexualy, overlg the 1999 cisn.

Some regns the untry also have expand laws that protect LGBTQ+ people, such as Juiz Fora cy and São Plo state, which troduced anti-homophobia laws 2000 and 2001. The natnal Human Rights Ombudsperson’s Office received about 1, 100 plats of vlence, discrimatn, and other crim agast lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) persons between January and October 2021.

BRAZILIAN PRINTIAL HOPEFUL EDUARDO LEE OUT AS GAY

Between January and June 2020, the natnal Human Rights Ombudsman’s Office received 1, 134 plats of vlence, discrimatn, and other ab agast lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) persons. Vlent aths of LGBT people Brazil have h an all-time high followg a sudn spike last year, new rearch least 445 LGBT Brazilians died as victims of homophobia 2017 – a 30% crease om 2016, acrdg to LGBT watchdog group Gpo Gay victims – 387 murrs and 58 suicis – clu Dandara dos Santos, a transexual woman who was beaten to ath the north-eastern Brazil cy Fortaleza March.

A vio of her beg beaten and kicked circulated on social media wh her torturers llg her homophobic is one of the world’s most vlent untri, wh a rerd 62, 000 homicis 2016, but thors of the rearch say that the aths were directly related to Mott, an anthropologist and print of Gpo Gay Bahia, said the risg vlence owed much to the promence of ultranservative policians, many of whom are lked to the untry’s powerful evangelil uc ngrs.

“It’s a disurse that stroys solidary and equat LGBT people to animals, ” he programs lked to evangelil church often pare homosexualy to the vil, she saidHomophobic speech is not a feral crime Brazil, while siar state and municipal laws are rarely effective or enforced.